Huggingface Discontinues Key Hardware Options and Persistent Storage Tiers, Impacting User Access and Pricing
What happened
Between the Oct 3, 2025 and Jan 1, 2026 captures of Huggingface's pricing page, Pulse recorded 3 changes: Spaces Persistent Storage options removed - Small (20GB at $5/mo), Medium (150GB at $25/mo), and Large (1TB at $100/mo) tiers discontinued; NVIDIA B200 1-GPU memory specification decreased from 256GB to 179GB in Inference Endpoints; Nvidia H100 hardware options removed from Spaces Hardware section - 1x H100 (23 vCPU, 240GB RAM, 80GB VRAM at $4.50/hr) and 8x H100 (184 vCPU, 1920GB RAM, 640GB VRAM at $36.00/hr) discontinued as Spaces options. Pulse files it as a packaging change (add-on removed, limit decrease) with a downward direction. Pulse's latest capture (Oct 16, 2026) lists PRO at $9, Team at $20, Enterprise at $50, Inference Endpoints - NVIDIA T4 AWS (4x) at $3 per hour and Inference Endpoints - NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 AWS (1x) at $2.75 per hour.
Huggingface's previous recorded change was "Huggingface Introduces Cost-Effective AWS NVIDIA H100 Inference Endpoints at $4.50/hour, Reducing Prices from GCP's $10.00/hour" (Q3 2025). Before that Pulse recorded "Huggingface Introduces New Team Plan and Upgrades PRO Features Amid Significant Price Decrease for A100 Hardware" (Q2 2025), "Huggingface Removes TPU v5e Hardware Options, Impacting Pricing for Spaces" (Q1 2025) and "Huggingface Reduces GCP NVIDIA A100 Inference Endpoint Prices by 40% to $3.60/hour, Delivering Significant Cost Savings" (Q4 2024). Huggingface has been tracked since 2023-11-14.
In the same window Cohere, OpenAI and Anthropic also changed their AI & Machine Learning pricing pages. Those moves are listed further down, and the Pulse Agent can compare them side by side.
- — · Add-onRemoved- SmallNo - Small
- — · LimitChanged256GB179GB
- — · Add-onRemoved
BeforeNvidia H100 hardware options
AfterNo Nvidia H100 hardware options
| Plan | Field | Before | After | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | Add-on | - Small | No - Small | Removed |
| — | Limit | 256GB | 179GB | Changed |
| — | Add-on | Nvidia H100 hardware options | No Nvidia H100 hardware options | Removed |
Values as written on Huggingface's public pricing page in the two captures Pulse compared; where the page states no number, the cells give the wording before and after.
Evidence
The two captures Pulse comparedFull-page captures of Huggingface's pricing page (huggingface.co) from Oct 3, 2025 and Jan 1, 2026; the change is marked around the middle of the page, where the - Small no longer appears.
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Huggingface, pricing history
Full history- Feb 23, 2026improvedHuggingface doubles PRO Account storage capacity
- Feb 16, 2026improvedHuggingface adds advanced security controls to Enterprise plan
- Week 5, 2026packagingHuggingface launches data storage at $12/TB with discounts up to 33% off
- Jan 14, 2026packagingHuggingface Discontinues Key Hardware Options and Persistent Storage Tiers, Impacting User Access and Pricing · this change
- Q3 2025improvedHuggingface Introduces Cost-Effective AWS NVIDIA H100 Inference Endpoints at $4.50/hour, Reducing Prices from GCP's $10.00/hour
- Q2 2025decreaseHuggingface Introduces New Team Plan and Upgrades PRO Features Amid Significant Price Decrease for A100 Hardware
- Q1 2025packagingHuggingface Removes TPU v5e Hardware Options, Impacting Pricing for Spaces
- Q4 2024decreaseHuggingface Reduces GCP NVIDIA A100 Inference Endpoint Prices by 40% to $3.60/hour, Delivering Significant Cost Savings
- Q3 2024improvedHuggingface Introduces Enhanced ZeroGPU Pro with 5x Usage Quota and Highest GPU Queue Priority, Alongside New L40S GPU Options
- Q2 2024improvedHuggingface Announces Major Price Drop: 4x Nvidia A10G-large Spaces Hardware Reduced by 54% to $5.00/hour
Across AI & Machine Learning in the same window
All AI & Machine Learning changes- CohereJan 13Cohere Introduces Command R7B Model, Optimizing Speed and Efficiency at Competitive Pricing
- OpenAIJan 12OpenAI Announces Dramatic 87% Price Drop for Flagship Reasoning Model Outputs During Transition to o3
- AnthropicJan 10Anthropic API Introduces Tiered Pricing and Prompt Caching for Sonnet 4.5, Restructuring Costs Based on Token Length
Questions about this change
Did Huggingface raise prices in January 2026?
No list-price increase was recorded between Oct 3, 2025 and Jan 1, 2026. The change Pulse detected was a packaging change: add-on removed, limit decrease.
What changed on Huggingface's pricing page between Oct 3, 2025 and Jan 1, 2026?
Add-on: - Small → No - Small, removed; limit: 256GB → 179GB, changed; add-on: Nvidia H100 hardware options → No Nvidia H100 hardware options, removed. Pulse compared the captures it took on Oct 3, 2025 and Jan 1, 2026; the before/after table above lists each item as written on the page.
How often does Huggingface change its pricing?
Pulse recorded 0 other pricing-page changes for Huggingface in the 90 days before this one; the previous change was "Huggingface Introduces Cost-Effective AWS NVIDIA H100 Inference Endpoints at $4.50/hour, Reducing Prices from GCP's $10.00/hour" in Q3 2025; Huggingface has been tracked since 2023-11-14.